10.7-Gb/s Discrete Multitone Transmission Over 25-m Bend-Insensitive Multicore Polymer Optical Fiber

Author

Loquai, Sven ; Kruglov, Roman ; Bunge, Christian-Alexander ; Ziemann, Olaf ; Schmauss, Bernhard ; Vinogradov, Juri

Author_Institution

Polymer Opt. Fiber Applic. Center (POF-AC), Univ. of Appl. Sci., Nuremberg, Germany

Volume

22

Issue

21

fYear

2010

Firstpage

1604

Lastpage

1606

Abstract

We report on 10.7-Gb/s transmission over 25-m multicore polymer optical fiber (MC-POF) which allows a robust transmission and ease of installation including tight bends. The discrete multitone modulation technique is applied to the intensity-modulated direct-detection optical channel in order to achieve high spectral efficiency. The use of bend-insensitive MC-POF reduces significantly the admissible bending radius to 2.5 mm without any signal distortion resulting in a very robust installation. The POF-optimized receiver comprises a silicon pin photodiode with an active diameter of 400 and a transimpedance amplifier.

Keywords

intensity modulation; optical fibre communication; optical polymers; optical receivers; p-i-n photodiodes; silicon; bit rate 10.7 Gbit/s; discrete multitone transmission; insensitive multicore polymer optical fiber; intensity-modulated direct-detection optical channel; signal distortion; silicon p-i-n photodiodes; spectral efficiency; transimpedance amplifier; Modulation; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber communication; Polymers; Robustness; Signal to noise ratio; Interconnection; optical communication; polymer optical fiber (POF); signal processing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LPT.2010.2074192

Filename

5567134